Economic Policy MA: Links with business and industry

How we work with industry partners

Our links with industry provide a practical base for our courses. They also help us to ensure your studies are kept up-to-date and relevant to the workplace.

For example, we collaborate with Kingston University's Centre for Economic Research and Intelligence (CERI) to provide an advice and research service for local authorities, businesses and other organisations. Previous work includes:

labour market analysis;

economic impact analysis;

local transport studies; and

studying the demand for leisure facilities.

We also undertake survey design and analysis for:

market research – previous work includes readership surveys, surveys of business forecasting practices, and questionnaire-based research into SME growth and survival; and

contingent valuation – used to investigate the value that consumers place on apparently free goods, such as aspects of their environment.